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Montefiore Medical Center's Critical Care Medicine Service Named One of the Nation's Best in Top 100

NEW YORK CITY,NY (February 2001) -- Montefiore Medical Center was named as one of the 100 top hospitals for its intensive care units in an independent study released this week by the Solucient Leadership Institute, a health care data company.

"Montefiore is honored to have been named among the top medical centers in the nation in caring for critically ill patients," said Spencer Foreman, M.D., president of Montefiore Medical Center. "One of the major challenges in hospitals today is to save both lives and money, to offer state-of-the-art medicine and technology and to do so in a cost-cutting environment. Our physicians, nurses and administrators have done an outstanding job in meeting this challenge and we are extremely pleased to be recognized."

The study, "100 Top Hospitals: Intensive Care Unit Benchmarks for Success", included data from 1,200 hospitals with ICUs and is one of the first comparative analyses of ICU performance among the nation's hospitals.

The study also showed that the U.S. health care industry could save an estimated $1.5 billion and more than 30,000 deaths could potentially be avoided annually if all ICUs operated at the same levels as the top-performing ICUs in both teaching and community hospitals.

"The research shows that regardless of whether we are comparing teaching hospitals, teaching hospitals with residencies in intensive care, or community hospitals, some institutions in all three categories exhibit superior intensive care management, resulting in much better outcomes and significantly lower costs," says Jean Chenoweth, executive director of the Solucient Leadership Institute, formerly the HCIA-Sachs Institute.

The study analyzed three different sets of patient populations, including those:

• With at least one of 10 medical diagnoses that commonly result in an ICU admission, such as heart attack or stroke.
• Who are commonly admitted to an ICU postoperatively for procedures such as lung removal or open-heart surgery.
• ICU admissions in which the patients were on a life-supporting mechanical ventilator for four or more days.

"It is truly gratifying to have The Montefiore Critical Care Medicine Service honored this way," said Vladimir Kvetan, M.D., Director of Critical Care Medicine at Montefiore. Dr. Kvetan, who is also a Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, added: "Our clinical and training program has been a leader in the ICU field, and recognition that national implementation of our standard would save thousands of lives, provide lower complication rates, and cut costs of intensive care affirms the vision and hard work of our team of intensivists, nurses, fellows and administrative staff."

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